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Nadia is heading to Ibiza to oversee the work at Sa Marea, the house she and her husband Marcos have bought. Her marriage is not at its best. Their inability to have children, which at first didn't affect their relationship, now seems to be all they can think about. The house renovations could be the chance for them to find some much-needed peace.
STAY ALIVE Antonia Scott is not afraid of anything. Only herself. NEVER WAS But there is someone more dangerous than her. Someone who could defeat her. SO DIFFICULT The Black Wolf is getting closer and closer. And Antonia, for the first time, is scared.
The young Rutona tries to reconstruct the life of her mother Rut with whom she shared a life that was both free and intense. Rut drove a tow-truck on the Catalan highways through the seventies, eighties, nineties and noughties. It was man's work done by an extraordinary woman, lover of freedom and of her own feelings.
These tales, so real that some details have been eliminated for coming too close to the truth, belong to the genre known as micturition literature, and are so starkly realist they can be slipped into its subgenre – laxative text. In fact they revel in it, squirming in such delight that the publishers initially wanted to print on paper more suited to its delicate function, but the ink ran.
The Skies of Curumo is a story constructed like a house of cards. The lives of five friends, the urban landscape of Caracas, incessant rain, the urgency of scavenging animals, evil that corrodes, and the signs of the decline of a country that could not see what was coming, all collide together. Chirinos is a ruthless storyteller.
The river, or the serpent, crosses the small village of Noaberri. Federico, the postman, is about to lose his job, but his granddaughter Iria has a plan to save it. But Don Isidoro, the mayor, hates the river, and he also hates Frederico. While the letters are dying, everybody has a secret… Can you guess what it is?
In a rural Galician village the local miller, a resentful widower, observes how the worst nightmares of Galician oral tradition are becoming reality around him. Dismembered animals are found, the harvest is spoiled, the legendary Santa Compaña figures are seen, and villagers are attacked by a werewolf.
Every Thursday, three friends meet up in a bar. One is a film director who always seems to be blurring the boundary between reality and imagination. Another is a novelist who aspires to the maximum freedom possible in terms of his writing as well as in life and has as many different handwriting styles as he does girl-friends.
Poor, sick and almost blind. This is how Benito Pérez Galdós, the Spanish genius of 20th century literature, lived his last years. In spite of everything, he did not lack in affection from his friends, family and neighbours. And, when his eyes needed to rely on other, younger ones in order to continue his literary work and thus survive, she, Carmela Cid, will be by his side. She will be his eyes.
Vega has heard a story about a little bird who treated his partner badly. Do you want to find out what happened? Do you know why there are little birds that behave like that? Do you want to know what the little bird did? Gender violence is a serious social problem that transcendes all geographical, social and temporal borders. There are many manifestations of gender-based violence.